Get Query String

[scorpion]

How can you get a query string from a link in php?

i.e. abc.php?pic=123.jpg, so query_string contains '123.jpg'?

[Nick_W]

This'll do it: parse_url() function [php.net]

The manual is very simple to use and a absolute goldmine of usefull information ;)

Nick

[scorpion]

thanks, but this is does not do what I want. I need to get the string from a link in the HTML, this function presupposes you have the URL as a string, I need to get that from the link:

e.g. <a href="getimage.php?name=123.jpg"> and when the user clicks this link, the getimage.php script is able to get the parameter off the link line...

[Knowles]

Wouldnt it just be 'echo $pic'? Or are you just wanting to store it again?

[Nick_W]

Then you have a long painfull journey ahead!

Regular expressions!

Rather you than me pal ;)

Nick

[c3oc3o]

Usually, if you call a PHP script with ?variablename=value, you automatically have a variable called $variablename.
If, however, register_globals is on in php.ini, and it's on by default in newer versions of PHP, you can only get the variable this way: $_GET('variablename') or $HTTP_GET_VARS('variablename') for security reasons.

If you really want the whole query string, which in the example above would be "variablename=value" (NOT just "value"!), you can use getenv($QUERY_STRING), or just $QUERY_STRING, depending on your settings.

[Nick_W]

No, you're a little off track: read msg #3

Nick